I think this is better. I wish the party weren't listed next to the candidate on ballots, too. Shouldn't we support policies, not parties?
For the percentage of the population that actually bothered to inform themselves enough to make a policy based decision, I'm not convinced our current form of democracy/representative republic is still a good idea. It worked on paper, but you can't point at the current self perpetuating oligarchy and tell me that's a functional representation of how this country is supposed to work.
No, I don't have a better idea. The Founders gave us a blueprint, the current "people" are too dumb and lazy to make it work.